Observability Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Observability
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 67 92
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing Observability 11 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.79% 0.38% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.45% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £419 £434 £459
25th Percentile £447 £447 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -2.50% -3.10%
75th Percentile £541 £522 £530
90th Percentile £551 £531 £538
Scotland median daily rate £500 £480 £508
% change year-on-year +4.28% -5.52% -3.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 576 673 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.81% 84.76% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 364 655
10th Percentile £307 £207 £213
25th Percentile £413 £340 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £590 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 6
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.09 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.66 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.19 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -61.71% +168.06%
75th Percentile £41.45 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.63 £55.25 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £18.33
% change year-on-year +7.02% +1.98% -7.68%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Edinburgh

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Edinburgh

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
2 6 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) Serverless
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Site Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Development Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AWS CDK
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth
2 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) Spring MVC
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (18.18%) Thymeleaf
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) Flask
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) LangChain
4 1 (9.09%) LangGraph
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
4 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) DevOps
4 6 (54.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (36.36%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) API Development
7 2 (18.18%) Data Science
7 2 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (18.18%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Bash
1 5 (45.45%) Perl
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Grafana
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
3 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (18.18%) Fluentd
4 2 (18.18%) HAProxy
4 2 (18.18%) Nagios
5 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) Commvault
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft